Name:

1. Your topic:

2. Use DRAGNET to identify an online database that contains professional-level information (not journalistic writing) on your topic.

a. Title of database:

 

b. Location (what menu or information service is it part of?):

 

3. Browse in the reference room to identify a specialized periodical index (or indices) which a professional investigating your topic would use. Locate this index. (Where in the reference room can it be found?)

a. Title of index:

 

b. Location:

 

4. Use the database and the index to make up a list of three articles on the topic listed in number 1 above. Fill in the table below for each article on the list. Do not use abbreviations for the titles of periodicals.

 

You must include at least one article found in a reference index in book form.

	Index	Article Title	Author	Periodical Title	Vol.	Date	Pages
a.
b.
c.

5. Identify the location (where in the library? floor and area) of the articles named in item 3.

 

 

a.

 

b.

 

c.

6. Attach a xeroxed copy of page one of one of the articles listed above. Your xerox must be of an article in a journal, not a printout from an online database.

7. Use the rest of this sheet and any additional space you need to make up a list of all the problems you encountered in completing this exercise and the ways in which you solved those problems.